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May 24, 2023

Brazil builds carbon dioxide emitting towers in Amazon to simulate climate change

Brazil is building a complex of carbon dioxide-emitting towers in the Amazon to simulate climate change. The technology was developed in a New York lab.

May 22, 2023

Brazilian ecologists combat Amazon deforestation with new land ownership model

After the world’s largest tropical forest lost 10% of its environment in the last four decades, ecologists in Brazil helped create a new conservation model to preserve the Amazon.

May 16, 2023

Pact grants Minnesota tribes extra leverage in natural resource management

The Superior National Forest has reached an agreement with three Ojibwe tribes in northeastern Minnesota, granting them more negotiating power in natural resource management.

May 5, 2023

German man rescued from woods after sex game gone wrong

A 51-year-old German man was freed from bondage restraints by two passersby after reportedly being abandoned in the woods by a woman he met online.

April 18, 2023

Largest-ever Wisconsin land conservation project dies in Legislature

A $15 million, 56,000-acre land purchase in Wisconsin's Pelican River Forest has been rejected by the state Legislature's budget committee.

April 4, 2023

Ownership of 2.8K-acre Vermont property transferred to federal government

A new land conservation deal has transferred ownership of a wooded, 2,800-acre property in Vermont's Green Mountain National Forest to the federal government.

March 18, 2023

Biden admin moves to shut down another mine over eco concerns amid green energy push

The Biden administration proposed banning mining for two decades in a South Dakota national forest area over concerns about environmental impacts.

March 2, 2023

Forest protection summit underway in Gabon, some countries believe protecting forests needs to be profitable

Gabon is hosting a summit on how to protect major forests across the world. The major issue being discussed is who will pay to protect the world's major forests.

January 31, 2023

West Virginia national forest to provide US Capitol Christmas tree

The West Virginia national forest will provide the U.S. Capitol Christmas tree this year. The tree is picked from a different forest every year and will be displayed on the west lawn.

January 26, 2023

Road-building, logging restrictions reinstated for Alaska’s Tongass National Forest

The U.S. is reinstating road-building and logging restrictions on the country’s largest national forest Tongass National Forest located in Alaska.